Menendez asks FBI to help investigate death of Scotch Plains man in U.S. Virgin Islands

6:17 PM,
Feb. 10, 2014

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U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has asked the FBI director to provide assistance to the parents of a Scotch Plains man who was killed while staying in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Menendez said the man's parents, James and Rosemary Malfetti, claim U.S. Virgin Islands law enforcement failed to perform a meaningful investigation into the death of their son, James Malfetti III.

"After the unthinkable death of their son, the last thing any parent needs is a hostile and uninterested law-enforcement response," Menendez said. "I am deeply troubled by reports that the police treated a ...